HP EliteBook 2730p

Awesome machine, although its getting slow nowadays and lacks certain modern things like USB3. I got it for 30 Euro from a friend, which was good price at tht time (even considering the roughed up condition and the lacking HDD).

Features

Tested and used with Arch Linux and Devuan.

HP EliteBook 2730p, 12" convertible

Mobile Intel GS45 Express Chipset ICH9M-Enhanced

Intel Core2 Duo SL9400, 1.86GHz 17W TDP

1024MB (non-vendor part) + 2048MB DDR2

comes with 2GB, up to 8GB supported

Toshiba 1.8" 60GBSSD (non-vendor part)

comes with 160GB 1.8" HDD

uses the pretty uncommon micro SATA connector !

Intel GMA X4500HD

acceleration , 3D

I/O

12" matte IPS (1280x800) with digitizer

digitizer (see below), brightness

Intel® Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300

Wi-Fi , Bluetooth , (killswitch )

Qualcomm Gobi 2000

WWAN , GPS

Modem

Gigabit Ethernet

3 USB 2.0 , FireWire

Headphone , Mic/Line-In , Speaker , Microphone

VGA

Express Card

Dock

I dont have one :(

Card reader

Fingerprint reader

no driver

Camera

Power

cpufreq via intel_acpi, PHC

S2R , S2D

6 Cell battery

readily available on ebay, but relatively expensive

a clip-under second battery is available, but often very expensive (and sometimes very cheap

overall power consumption is around 6-8W

ACPI events , keys (via hp-wmi module)

Very silent, runs around 5h with the internal (and another 4h with the external)